I think it’s a good design in some ways and worse in others.
For this case it’s annoying because it’s just a .zip that has the binaries ready to go i assume.
But you really want the focus to be on the README and good install instructions. Especially when the releases are just uncomiled source code (which is common).
So I think GitHub leaves this focus on the README and let’s the dev decide what is the focus of the people visiting.
This is gonna be a controversial take, but when Github was formed it was never meant to be the main website of your project. Even though there are Pages now, it’s still primarily a Git repository host for developers, not a front-end website for end users of those projects.
This is cool, but where do I download it?
On that link. Scroll down to releases and download the Windows .zip file. If you’re not on Windows, you’re going to be learning to build from source.
Thank you. I didn’t know there was a “releases” section to the right of Github repositories.
Github really tries to hide the Releases page lol it’s so annoying as a dev, it’s even worse on mobile
I usually end up just directly linking to
/releases/latestI think it’s a good design in some ways and worse in others.
For this case it’s annoying because it’s just a .zip that has the binaries ready to go i assume.
But you really want the focus to be on the README and good install instructions. Especially when the releases are just uncomiled source code (which is common).
So I think GitHub leaves this focus on the README and let’s the dev decide what is the focus of the people visiting.
Well it doesn’t really focus on your README either because all the files and folders are above it
This is gonna be a controversial take, but when Github was formed it was never meant to be the main website of your project. Even though there are Pages now, it’s still primarily a Git repository host for developers, not a front-end website for end users of those projects.
tell that to Google lol, my Github pages are way higher than my website